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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
MADELINE OSTRANDER - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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A science journalist explores how our relationship to home is shifting in an era of planetary upheaval, offering stories of resilient communities on the front lines of climate change and reflecting on how to reimagine our lives.This past summer, one in three Americans experienced some kind... |
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Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's life and perception of home.In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least... |
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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
SEIRIAN SUMNER - Harper Format: Kindle Edition
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"A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from." - Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being InterestedIn this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading... |
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Antonio Padilla - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality.For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate... |
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Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
Nina Nesseth - Tor Nightfire Format: Hardcover
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Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more.Do you like scary movies?Have you ever wondered why?Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why.In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores... |
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Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Carl A. Zimring - New York University Press, 2015. Format: Hardcover
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When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white... |
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What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
David R. Montgomery - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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Are you really what you eat?David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples... |
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing - and one of the most decorated journalists of our time - twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue"I read everything he writes. Every time he writes... |
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